palmification (palm if i kas hon)

[L. palm a, palm, + -ficare, The Babylonians suspended male clusters from wild dates over the females; but they seem to have supposed that the fertility thus produced depended the of small flies among the wild flowers, which, by entering the female flowers, caused them to set and ripen. The proce was called palmification. Encyc. Brit., IV. 82. palm i form (pal'mi-form), a. [= F. It. palm i forme,